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Inside: Big Tech joins the race to build the world's heaviest airplane; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/09/temporarily-embarrassed-founders/

#Pluralistic

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This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

Try to memorize one constellation you don’t already know and find it in the sky tonight.

It would be a real shame if this photo of President Barak Obama receiving the *actual* Nobel Peace Prize goes viral today for no apparent reason

Nobel committee is really pissed now that people have figured out that anybody can give a peace prize.

Don't feel the pressure.

@saulm @Nonilex @Lightfighter

Same

Tennessee—tomorrow is huge.

A Republican +22 district is in play, and the polling is close.

Aftyn Behn is the Democrat on the ballot, and this race is winnable if people show up.

If you live in the district, make a plan and VOTE on December 2. Every single vote matters.
#Aftyn Behn

More like unsubscriber Monday, right?

#cyberMonday

Our legacy corporate media was psyched to report that shoppers spent 9% more this Black Friday than last year.

Our legacy corporate media has been reluctant to report that the sales volume was down by 2%.

They spent more because costs are up!
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/29/black-friday-sales-down-2-but-cost-10-more.html

We could house everyone. We could feed everyone. We could care for everyone. We could build devices designed to last as long as possible. We could align our manufacturing around the needs of the people and the planet.

We materially have the resources to do so.

That's why leftists are so angry. The resources we need to build a world everyone can thrive in literally already exist. We are just using them mostly to pamper the rich or murder the poor.

Its once again time for everyone's favorite annual contest, Whamageddon!

The rules are simple

The Rules!
The 1st Rule

The objective is to go as long as possible without hearing WHAM's Christmas classic; "Last Christmas".

The 2nd Rule

The game starts on December 1st, and finishes at the end of December 24th.
Use your local timezone, if you'd like.

The 3rd Rule

Only the original version applies. Enjoy the ?#!$&%! out of remixes and covers.

The 4th Rule

You're out as soon as you recognise the song.

Bonus Rule

Post here with the #whamageddon hashtag when you get hit.

PvP?

While we can't stop you from deliberately sending your friends to Whamhalla, the intention is that this is a survival game. Not a Battle Royale. So ... don't be a dick, mkay?

#whamageddon2025

Picard sanity tip: If there are four lights, say there are four lights.

Your daily fortune:
Even mundane tasks can become more exciting if you have a duck in your backpack.

on the nose metaphors: some of the more painful parts of this cursed timeline

#Meme #Humour

We must remake the world such that the International Criminal Court has much more muscle – including jurisdiction over American and Russian politicians.

A boy can dream.

Who could have suspected that there would be a downside to making an incompetent sexually-assaulting drunkard the U.S. Secretary of Defense?

@GossiTheDog

I misread the headline as "Investers expect AI use to sour." And I was like "right on"